Slide Show Resolution

baldguy wrote on 5/31/2005, 9:15 AM

I made my first slide show using VMS from high resolution digital pictures. The results are very disappointing ... teh slide show is very grainy (low resolution). Do I have a setting wrong or is this normal?

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 5/31/2005, 12:27 PM

Well, don't forget this is video editing software, baldguy. No matter what resolution the photos are that you put in, you're still only going to get video resolution. That's 720 x 480 in the NTSC system. On your TV that looks fine but on a computer monitor (which is probably set to at least 1024 x 768, you're looking at three or more times that resolution, so it's going to look under-rezzed (i.e., grainy and jagged).

Chances are it will work just fine on a TV.

And, before you ask, no, you can't increase the resolution of the video in this program. That's HD-TV no consumer editing program for the PC that I know of is capable of working with it yet.

baldguy wrote on 6/2/2005, 4:49 PM

I was able to improve the reslution by changing the Rendering Settings:

AdvancedRender / Custom / VideoRenderingQuality / Best. (the default setting is "Good")

The picture quality is much better on t\he filnal product.

Thanks for the feedback